Presenter: Dr. Heather L. Baltzer

Biography: Dr. Heather Baltzer is the Director of the Toronto Western Hand program, Schroeder Arthritis Institute. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and a clinician investigator at University Health Network’s Schroeder Arthritis Institute and Krembil Research Institute. After her plastic surgery residency in Toronto, she went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for her Hand, Wrist and Peripheral Nerve Surgery fellowship. Her clinical practice focuses on peripheral nerve reconstruction and hand surgery. She has a special focus on facial nerve paralysis and dysfunction and brachial plexus pathology.